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An ivory statuette of a Roman actor of tragedy, 1st century. A Roman actor playing Papposilenus, marble statue, c. 100 AD, after a Greek original from the 4th century BC. No early Roman tragedy survives, though it was highly regarded in its day; historians know of three early tragedians—Ennius, Pacuvius and Lucius Accius. One important aspect ...
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Gaius Ummidius Actius Anicetus was a Roman pantomime actor who lived in Pompeii. [1] [2] Actius is attested in an inscription from Puteoli that identifies him as a pantomime actor. [3] The possibility has been raised that Actius may be the freedman (libertus) of Ummidia Quadratilla who is discussed in the letters of Pliny the Younger.
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The Cerealia were celebrated in ancient Rome with a ceremony and then with the ludi cerealici in the Circus Maximus (painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1894).. The spectacles in ancient Rome were numerous, open to all citizens and generally free of charge; some of them were distinguished by the grandeur of the stagings and cruelty.
In 69 BC, they were found at Artaxata, the capital of the Roman enemy Tigranes the Great. [36] Strabo mentions them as still active at Lebedus in the early first century AD. [ 36 ] Continued survival into the second century AD is shown by their appearance in three inscriptions from Tralleis , Ephesus , and Magnesia on the Maeander . [ 43 ]